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Originally Posted by Hitch
My first really large Hotel job necessitated my signature on hundreds, even thousands of documents. That was '85. '84 was the last year my signature was remotely legible. Since then, it consists of the first letter of my first name, the first letter of my last name, and a line. With a peak for a "t," and that's it. Otherwise, you'll go insane.
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Mine is roughly equivalent.
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PLUS, the good thing is, it's relatively easy to decipher. (Mr. H notes that it wouldn't be hard to forge. I can't argue with that. Fortunately, there's very little reason that anyone would want to, these days.)
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And if you are going to forge someone's writing, you likely need to forge more than just a signature. That's increasingly unlikely to be needed. Who writes anything extensive in long hand?
And as far as being decipherable, how much does anyone care? The key is that the signature is a glyph recognizable as being produced by you. Whether it can be recognized as some variant of your legal name isn't relevant - only the fact that you signed it is.
My current signature is an illegible scrawl - a stylized cursive capital D and a squiggle stretching into a line. It's accepted when I need to sign things like checks or CC receipts. No one else will have my checks to forge a signature on, and CC charges have other defenses.
The sort of paperwork you had to sign when doing construction management isn't something I've had to deal with in a long time, and should I have to again, there will likely be a witness when I
do sign things, which a forgery will lack.
Today's hi-tech equivalent of forgery is identity theft, but that's a different order of threat with different safeguards.
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Dennis